Floor-wax



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH P. STEIDLE, OF WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

FLOOR-WAX.

1,389,391, Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 30, 1921. NoDrawing. Application filed August 4, 1920. Serial No. 401,221. To allwhom z'tmwy concern. The wax is bees wax, or other equivalent e 1t knownthat I, JOSEPH P. firnninn, wax. The paraffin or parawax is melted b acitizen of the United States, residing at heat, so that 1t is veryfluid, and is'then i Ices-Barre, in the county of Luzerne and thoroughlymixed with the corn meal. The

ennsylvania, have invented cercorn meal is then mixed with all the othertam new and useful Improvements in Floorpowdered ingredients. Wax, ofWhich the following is a specificae floor wax is preserved in cans, andis tion. sprinkled lightly and evenly in its ow- This invention relatesto a wax powder ered form on the floor to be treated The 10 speclallyadapted for COELtlll the floors of shoes of the dancers who use thefloor press ance halls and pavilions and it consists t e wax upon thefloor, and the floor is 1n t e novel combination of the in redientsrendered more suitable for dancing on acereinafter fully described and caimed, and count of the coating thus applied to it. in substantially theproportions stated. What I claim is: 15 he floor wax is preferablycomposed of wax powder for coating dancing floors the followingingredients: comprising substantially 10 pounds of corn 10 pounds ofyellow corn meal, meal, 2 ounces of wax, 2 pounds of arafiin 0 ounces ofwax in powder, or parawax, and one pound each of borax 2 pounds ofparaflin or p-arawax, boric acid and soa stone. 20 1 pound of powderedborax, In testimony w ereof I have afiixed my 1 pound of boric acid inpowder, and signature. 1 pound of powdered soapstone. JOSEPH P. STEIDLE.

